diwan@cs.umass.edu (Amer &) (06/29/91)
I have been having a lot of problems printing on a non-Apple PostScript
printer under System 7.0. Before System 7.0, I would dump out a postscript
file by holding 'K' after clicking OK in the print dialog. Then I would send
the postscript produced to a postscript printer. After installing System 7.0,
this strategy doesn't work as the postscript file produced by clicking
on the 'postscript' button in the Print dialog box produces a huge postscript
file (as it now includes LaserPrep, Fonts etc.). This causes the printer to
either run out of memory or take a long time to print, making this route
unreasonable for non-trivial printing jobs.
I would appreciate it if anybody could suggest any better printing technique.
Amer
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Amer Diwan
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
(413) 545-0256 diwan@cs.umass.edu
------------------------------------------------------------------------------markwang@athena.mit.edu (Mark Y Wang) (06/29/91)
In article <DIWAN.91Jun28132645@ibis.cs.umass.edu> diwan@cs.umass.edu writes: >I have been having a lot of problems printing on a non-Apple PostScript >printer under System 7.0. Before System 7.0, I would dump out a postscript >file by holding 'K' after clicking OK in the print dialog. Then I would send >the postscript produced to a postscript printer. After installing System 7.0, >this strategy doesn't work as the postscript file produced by clicking >on the 'postscript' button in the Print dialog box produces a huge postscript >file (as it now includes LaserPrep, Fonts etc.). This causes the printer to >either run out of memory or take a long time to print, making this route >unreasonable for non-trivial printing jobs. >I would appreciate it if anybody could suggest any better printing technique. > Amer >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Amer Diwan > (413) 545-0256 diwan@cs.umass.edu >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I just got StripFonts (HappiWare by James Elliott) to work here. (It took me a while because there is a unix end to the package, and I'm a novice at unix). It's great at stripping fonts that already exist on your postscript printer (typically reducing file sizes by 90% or more). This in turn shortens mac/unix transfer times and printing times. I applaud James for his work -- StripFonts is the solution to the slew of postings I've read about huge sys7.0 postscript files. Below is James posting from about two weeks ago (I trust he doesn't mind me spreading the word). BTW - why hasn't it made it to comp.binaries.mac yet? Mark (markwang@athena.mit.edu) >From: elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu (James Elliott) >Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.system >Subject: Re: Printing Postscript Files from a Mac on a Unix system > >People who do this kind of printing regularly may want to keep their >eyes open for StripFonts, a package I just posted to comp.sys.mac.archive >and comp.binaries.mac; it can greatly speed up the uploading of Mac >PostScript files by stripping out the fonts and ProcSets from them; a >library of these is gradually built up on the UNIX side so that each >font and ProcSet needs to be uploaded only once and then never again... > >If the postings seem to be taking too long, you can also get at >StripFonts by anonymous ftp to my machine, veronica.cs.wisc.edu. Look >in the directory src/stripfonts. >-- >Jim Elliott "Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall" >elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu -- Mark Wang (markwang@athena.mit.edu)